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Narrator: Grant MacEwan Community College is situated in the heart of Edmonton’s downtown and is where Alison Lennie of Inuvik, NT is working towards her Bachelor of Commerce Degree. Alison Lennie: I graduated from Samuel Hearne secondary school in Inuvik and I went to NAIT for one semester and did College Prep there and then I started going to Grant MacEwan in the fall, or the winter of 2004. My dad. Because he was a businessman. He had his own business and he played a huge role in the Unuvialuit Corporations and I got to see the influence he made. After I get my degree, I’m planning on getting my Chartered Accountant Certificate. I’ve always wanted to be an accountant. I started looking into it during my last year of high school, the schools in the Edmonton area. I just liked Grant MacEwan because of the smaller class size and the lower tuition. Probably back in Inuvik or somewhere in the Northwest Territories working. They let us know that they’re there to help and that’s pretty much I just went and met with them they really helped me figure out what I was going to do. The Government of Canada. I got employment insurance for one year while I was in school and NWT Financial Assistance is assisting me this year. It’s hard to live on your own and the seven hundred dollar living allowance doesn’t cover a lot. If you don’t get Inuvialuit Education Foundation’s five hundred a month then you really need help or else you just can’t make it. And it just makes school a lot harder and more stressful. I think it’s hard. Because you’re away from all your family and you don’t have their help and you have to cook for yourself and you can’t go visiting. I think it’s hard and it’s lonely sometimes.